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How to clear EPG-Tarpit Table

This article applies to the following products:

  • Exchange Protocol Guard (EPG) 2019
  • Exchange Protocol Guard (EPG) 2016
  • Exchange Protocol Guard (EPG) 2013

Summary

This article describes the steps required to clear the Tarpit table in the EPG database, ensuring that EPG’s tarpit functionality has no existing entries and starts clean.


Steps 

  • Open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
  • Connect to the SQL Server where the EPG database is hosted
  • In the Object Explorer, expand Databases
  • Locate and right-click the EPG database, then select New Query
  • In the query window, run the following command to clear all entries from the Tarpit table:

    truncate table TblTarpitUser

 

  • Highlight the query and click Execute
  • Once executed, Navigate to EPG-Tarpit and verify that all enteries have been cleared